Mitchell R. Vollger
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Very excited to share I’ll be starting my own group at University of Utah in the Department of Human Genetics in the new year! Reach out if you are interested! vollgerlab.com
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New lab photo for the first time in too many years. I am so proud of this team's curiosity, camaraderie, and collabative energy.
February 10, 2026 at 4:27 PM
New lab photo for the first time in too many years. I am so proud of this team's curiosity, camaraderie, and collabative energy.
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AlphaGenome is out in @nature.com today along with model weights! 🧬
📄 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💻 Weights: github.com/google-deepm...
Getting here wasn’t a straight path. We discussed the story behind the model, paper & API in the following roundtable: youtu.be/V8lhUqKqzUc
📄 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💻 Weights: github.com/google-deepm...
Getting here wasn’t a straight path. We discussed the story behind the model, paper & API in the following roundtable: youtu.be/V8lhUqKqzUc
January 28, 2026 at 9:02 PM
AlphaGenome is out in @nature.com today along with model weights! 🧬
📄 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💻 Weights: github.com/google-deepm...
Getting here wasn’t a straight path. We discussed the story behind the model, paper & API in the following roundtable: youtu.be/V8lhUqKqzUc
📄 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💻 Weights: github.com/google-deepm...
Getting here wasn’t a straight path. We discussed the story behind the model, paper & API in the following roundtable: youtu.be/V8lhUqKqzUc
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Time for a thread on our Christmas preprint “Origin and evolution of acrocentric chromosomes in human and great apes”. I had so much fun with this project and paper. It will be hard to summarize in a thread, but I’ll try www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/21]
February 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Time for a thread on our Christmas preprint “Origin and evolution of acrocentric chromosomes in human and great apes”. I had so much fun with this project and paper. It will be hard to summarize in a thread, but I’ll try www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/21]
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Pregnancy loss is common in humans, and chromosomal abnormalities are the leading cause. Using genetic data from ~140,000 IVF embryos, we show that maternal variation in meiosis genes influences recombination and aneuploidy risk.
First authors: @saracarioscia.bsky.social & @aabiddanda.github.io
First authors: @saracarioscia.bsky.social & @aabiddanda.github.io
Common variation in meiosis genes shapes human recombination and aneuploidy - Nature
Analysis of data from pre-implantation genetic testing sheds light on the genetic basis of meiotic-origin aneuploidy, the leading cause of human pregnancy loss, identifying common genetic variants ass...
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January 21, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Pregnancy loss is common in humans, and chromosomal abnormalities are the leading cause. Using genetic data from ~140,000 IVF embryos, we show that maternal variation in meiosis genes influences recombination and aneuploidy risk.
First authors: @saracarioscia.bsky.social & @aabiddanda.github.io
First authors: @saracarioscia.bsky.social & @aabiddanda.github.io
I am hiring a staff bioinformatician for my new lab at the University of Utah! Please consider applying if you are on the hunt:
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January 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
I am hiring a staff bioinformatician for my new lab at the University of Utah! Please consider applying if you are on the hunt:
employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-ci...
employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-ci...
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Mapping single-cell diploid chromatin fiber architectures using DAF-seq - @uwgenome.bsky.social @uwdeptmedicine.bsky.social go.nature.com/4rFTAHy
Mapping single-cell diploid chromatin fiber architectures using DAF-seq - Nature Biotechnology
Single-molecule chromatin fiber sequencing exposes single-cell-level heterogeneity in the chromatin architecture of individual regulatory elements.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Mapping single-cell diploid chromatin fiber architectures using DAF-seq - @uwgenome.bsky.social @uwdeptmedicine.bsky.social go.nature.com/4rFTAHy
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We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen.
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Intro to Bedder – The Quinlan Lab
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December 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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The effects of genetic variants primarily occur in differentiated cells meaning we need to access these cell types to measure variant effects for most disease genes. We developed saturation genome editing in stem cells (iPSC-SGE) to enable phenotyping in diverse genetic and cell contexts at scale!
Editing stem cell genomes at scale to measure variant effects in diverse cell and genetic contexts
Multiplexed assays of variant effect (MAVEs) systematically measure variant function but have been limited to cancer cell lines rather than disease-relevant cell types. We developed saturation genome ...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The effects of genetic variants primarily occur in differentiated cells meaning we need to access these cell types to measure variant effects for most disease genes. We developed saturation genome editing in stem cells (iPSC-SGE) to enable phenotyping in diverse genetic and cell contexts at scale!
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Happy to share work spearheaded by former grad student Colin Shew testing shared duplicated cis regulatory elements (CREs) using an MPRA. While we find some high effect CREs, collectively paralog differences represent modest effects accounting for observed gene expression divergence.
Influence of cis-regulatory elements on regulatory divergence in human segmental duplications https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680410v1
October 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Happy to share work spearheaded by former grad student Colin Shew testing shared duplicated cis regulatory elements (CREs) using an MPRA. While we find some high effect CREs, collectively paralog differences represent modest effects accounting for observed gene expression divergence.
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More youtube videos coming soon to www.youtube.com/BenLangmead! New recording setup. I've got a couple videos in the editing phase and hope to keep up a rhythm of 1 new video per week.
September 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
More youtube videos coming soon to www.youtube.com/BenLangmead! New recording setup. I've got a couple videos in the editing phase and hope to keep up a rhythm of 1 new video per week.
@uwmedicine.bsky.social what is this? Trying to get your patients and employees with insurance to pay for full medical bills during check in before billing insurance… Disappointing and wrong.
August 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
@uwmedicine.bsky.social what is this? Trying to get your patients and employees with insurance to pay for full medical bills during check in before billing insurance… Disappointing and wrong.
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Congratulations to @benlangmead.bsky.social on his promotion to full professor! 🎉 Prof. Langmead is recognized across the computational and life sciences fields for his innovative methods helping to transform how biomedical researchers and other life scientists access and use DNA sequencing data. 🧬
July 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Congratulations to @benlangmead.bsky.social on his promotion to full professor! 🎉 Prof. Langmead is recognized across the computational and life sciences fields for his innovative methods helping to transform how biomedical researchers and other life scientists access and use DNA sequencing data. 🧬
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Thrilled that our study on human gene duplications and brain evolution is out! It was a true labor of love, with special shout-outs to my co-first author @jmuribescr.bsky.social and my PhD mentor @mydennis.bsky.social. Huge thanks as well to @aidaandres.bsky.social for all the popgen wisdom!
Check out our latest work co-led by @dcsoto.bsky.social and @jmuribescr.bsky.social identifying hundreds of human duplicated gene families using the new T2T-CHM13 assembly, with a focus on those potentially contributing to brain evolution 🧪: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXu...
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July 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Thrilled that our study on human gene duplications and brain evolution is out! It was a true labor of love, with special shout-outs to my co-first author @jmuribescr.bsky.social and my PhD mentor @mydennis.bsky.social. Huge thanks as well to @aidaandres.bsky.social for all the popgen wisdom!
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Check out our latest work co-led by @dcsoto.bsky.social and @jmuribescr.bsky.social identifying hundreds of human duplicated gene families using the new T2T-CHM13 assembly, with a focus on those potentially contributing to brain evolution 🧪: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXu...
authors.elsevier.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Check out our latest work co-led by @dcsoto.bsky.social and @jmuribescr.bsky.social identifying hundreds of human duplicated gene families using the new T2T-CHM13 assembly, with a focus on those potentially contributing to brain evolution 🧪: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXu...
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How it started vs. How it's going #Tenured
Grateful to all those who've been a part of this journey so far. But the fun is just getting started 💪
Curious to find out just what this privilege of tenure can enable. Let's see how we can put it to the test. Feel free to share ideas 😉
#AcademicSky
Grateful to all those who've been a part of this journey so far. But the fun is just getting started 💪
Curious to find out just what this privilege of tenure can enable. Let's see how we can put it to the test. Feel free to share ideas 😉
#AcademicSky
July 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
How it started vs. How it's going #Tenured
Grateful to all those who've been a part of this journey so far. But the fun is just getting started 💪
Curious to find out just what this privilege of tenure can enable. Let's see how we can put it to the test. Feel free to share ideas 😉
#AcademicSky
Grateful to all those who've been a part of this journey so far. But the fun is just getting started 💪
Curious to find out just what this privilege of tenure can enable. Let's see how we can put it to the test. Feel free to share ideas 😉
#AcademicSky
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Some personal news: amid everything going on, I’ve been promoted to Professor. I am so deeply grateful to all of the past and present members of the lab, who allowed me to be a part of their journey. I am so honored to call all of you my colleagues.
July 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Some personal news: amid everything going on, I’ve been promoted to Professor. I am so deeply grateful to all of the past and present members of the lab, who allowed me to be a part of their journey. I am so honored to call all of you my colleagues.
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🧬🧪Fiber-seq was developed and originally published by Andrew Stergachis (now at @uwdeptmedicine.bsky.social) in 2020.
It's a very cool method for adding chromatin accessibility data to native LRS experiments.
You should definitely check out the original paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
It's a very cool method for adding chromatin accessibility data to native LRS experiments.
You should definitely check out the original paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Single-molecule regulatory architectures captured by chromatin fiber sequencing
Fiber-seq translates single-molecule chromatin stencils into a readout of the primary architecture of chromatin.
www.science.org
June 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
🧬🧪Fiber-seq was developed and originally published by Andrew Stergachis (now at @uwdeptmedicine.bsky.social) in 2020.
It's a very cool method for adding chromatin accessibility data to native LRS experiments.
You should definitely check out the original paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
It's a very cool method for adding chromatin accessibility data to native LRS experiments.
You should definitely check out the original paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3
apnews.com/article/nih-...
apnews.com/article/nih-...
June 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3
apnews.com/article/nih-...
apnews.com/article/nih-...
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You may be excited, @mrvollger.bsky.social, but we are even more so! I can't wait to be your colleague!
Very excited to share I’ll be starting my own group at University of Utah in the Department of Human Genetics in the new year! Reach out if you are interested! vollgerlab.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
You may be excited, @mrvollger.bsky.social, but we are even more so! I can't wait to be your colleague!
Very excited to share I’ll be starting my own group at University of Utah in the Department of Human Genetics in the new year! Reach out if you are interested! vollgerlab.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Very excited to share I’ll be starting my own group at University of Utah in the Department of Human Genetics in the new year! Reach out if you are interested! vollgerlab.com
Reposted by Mitchell R. Vollger
Had the privilege to also see the magnificent session S10 - on the non-coding genome.
Again top-notch science with great presentations and style of bring complex matters to a broad audience! What a treat!
Thanks @mrvollger.bsky.social; @elfridedebaere.bsky.social and Musa Mhlanga @eshg.bsky.social
Again top-notch science with great presentations and style of bring complex matters to a broad audience! What a treat!
Thanks @mrvollger.bsky.social; @elfridedebaere.bsky.social and Musa Mhlanga @eshg.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Had the privilege to also see the magnificent session S10 - on the non-coding genome.
Again top-notch science with great presentations and style of bring complex matters to a broad audience! What a treat!
Thanks @mrvollger.bsky.social; @elfridedebaere.bsky.social and Musa Mhlanga @eshg.bsky.social
Again top-notch science with great presentations and style of bring complex matters to a broad audience! What a treat!
Thanks @mrvollger.bsky.social; @elfridedebaere.bsky.social and Musa Mhlanga @eshg.bsky.social
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In work led by @lalli.bsky.social, we present recombination maps and a diverse haplotype reference panel (1000 Genomes Project) for the T2T-CHM13 human reference genome. These resources improve the accuracy of phasing and imputation, especially around common CNVs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A T2T-CHM13 recombination map and globally diverse haplotype reference panel improves phasing and imputation
The T2T-CHM13 complete human reference genome contains ~200 Mb of newly resolved sequence, improving read mapping and variant calling compared to GRCh38. However, the benefits of using complete refere...
www.biorxiv.org
March 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In work led by @lalli.bsky.social, we present recombination maps and a diverse haplotype reference panel (1000 Genomes Project) for the T2T-CHM13 human reference genome. These resources improve the accuracy of phasing and imputation, especially around common CNVs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Check out our new preprint describing CiFi - a method that couples 3C and PacBio HiFi sequencing with low input requirements. We apply it to human GM12878 to better characterize chromatin across repetitive regions, as well as single insect samples (a mosquito and a Mediterranean fruit fly).
CiFi: Accurate long-read chromatin conformation capture with low-input requirements https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.31.635566v1
February 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Check out our new preprint describing CiFi - a method that couples 3C and PacBio HiFi sequencing with low input requirements. We apply it to human GM12878 to better characterize chromatin across repetitive regions, as well as single insect samples (a mosquito and a Mediterranean fruit fly).
Reposted by Mitchell R. Vollger
This is the way
The "kitchen sink" of omics to solve the basis for an undiagnosed disease: long read genome , transcriptome, methytome, epigenome, all synchronized (a first)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Synchronized long-read genome, methylome, epigenome and transcriptome profiling resolve a Mendelian condition - Nature Genetics
Simultaneous profiling of the genome, methylome, epigenome and transcriptome using single-molecule chromatin fiber sequencing and multiplexed arrays isoform sequencing identifies the genetic and molec...
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January 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is the way
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The "kitchen sink" of omics to solve the basis for an undiagnosed disease: long read genome , transcriptome, methytome, epigenome, all synchronized (a first)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Synchronized long-read genome, methylome, epigenome and transcriptome profiling resolve a Mendelian condition - Nature Genetics
Simultaneous profiling of the genome, methylome, epigenome and transcriptome using single-molecule chromatin fiber sequencing and multiplexed arrays isoform sequencing identifies the genetic and molec...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The "kitchen sink" of omics to solve the basis for an undiagnosed disease: long read genome , transcriptome, methytome, epigenome, all synchronized (a first)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...